Recommendations for authors
The recommendations below are meant to clearify the expected quality of the journal and it's articles. The authors can send the electronic version, Microsoft Word (.doc), of articles at : resjournal@uvt.ro The sent papers shall be submited under a peer-review. The scientifical criteria used by them will be also published. If the article does not respect the technical criteria it will not be included in the peer-review process
Every article sent to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Educational Sciences in order to be published must not have been sent to other editorial boards or published in any other context.
Editing criteria:
- The accepted publishing languages are: English, Romanian.
- The words and quotes in foreign languages are written in Italics. The quotes in Romanian are writen normally. Every quote shall have a foot note.
- Citations should be indicated in parentheses the author, year of publication, page, can be easily identified with a complete reference to the citation from the end of the article. For example, if references to an author who had two publications in the same year, 2010, will be written including one bibliography 2010b works, to be easily identified. Footnotes should be used only in exceptional cases, if necessary annotations by the author.
- Every author shall insert his name below the title of the paper, upper right on the paper, with a foot note that shall stipulate: academical title, institution, city, country, e-mail.
- Every text shall be preceded by an abstract; every abstract shall be followed by the key-words section of a total of 5 key-words. The abstract and the key-words section shall sum a total of 800 characters; The abstract and key-words shall be written both in Romanian and English.
- Each abreviation shall be explained only at first use.
- The bibliographical references must include at least one author listed by ISI or quoted in ISI articles.
- At least 30% of the references must include papers published in the last five years.
Technical criteria:
- page - A4;
- page setup: up – 2cm; down – 3 cm; left – 3 cm; right – 2 cm;
- length of paper: 8-10 pages (max. 30 000 characters, including bibliography and abstract);
- the abstract and key words shall be submitted in English (and Romanian, if possible);
- page setup: justified, line spacing: 1,5;
- title: aldine (bold), 14p;
- text: Arial Narrow, 11;
- first line indent: 1 cm;
- bibliographical references, listed in alphabetical order, APA Style:
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AUTHOR. (publication date). Title. city: publishing house.
Ex: Orr, Dominic (2012). Widening Access to Higher Education - What can Euro-student say about the new challenges emerging from teaching and learning? In A. Curaj, P. Scott, L. Vlasceanu, L Wilson. (2012.eds.). European Higher Education at the Crossroads - Between Bologna Process and national Reforms. London: Springer. P.173-190.
Article:
AUTHOR, (publication date). Title. Name of Journal. page number. Ex: Orr, Dominic (2012). Widening Access to Higher Education - What can Euro-student say about the new challenges emerging from teaching and learning? In A. Curaj, P. Scott, L. Vlasceanu, L Wilson. (2012.eds.). European Higher Education at the Crossroads - Between Bologna Process and national Reforms. London: Springer. P.173-190.
Online article
AUTHOR, (publication date). Title. Name of Journal.(is it is the case). Retrieved from (web site address). Ex: Van, J. (2002). Adding more people to online education equation. Retrieved from http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-02-11/business/0202110006_1_online-education-business-plan-computer-automation, on 26th May, 2014Website:
AUTHOR, (publication date).Title. name of the website. Retrieved from (web site address). Ex: OECD(2014). Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning. Retrieved from http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/innovativeteachingforeffectivelearning.htm on 15th June, ,2014
- The references are not numbered